(First Draft - March 03 2015 - 12:27 PM:)

<>According to voting records from Miami-Dade County, where Mr. Bush and his wife, Columba, are longtime residents, the couple did not vote for John McCain or anyone else in that presidential election.>
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(First Draft - March 03 2015 - 12:11 PM:)

<>A report in Tuesday’s Times that Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used her personal email account for government business while she was secretary of state prompted a swift reaction from Republicans – and near-silence from Democrats.>
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(First Draft - March 02 2015 - 6:53 PM:)

<>Aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton circulated a series of talking points to allies Monday to help them respond to a spate of negative news accounts in recent weeks about the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.>
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(First Draft - February 27 2015 - 9:09 PM:)

<>Vincent Gentile, a city councilman from Brooklyn, will seek the seat left vacant after Representative Michael Grimm's resignation. He will face Dan Donovan, the Republican district attorney on Staten Island, in a special election on May 5.>
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(FiveThirtyEight - June 04 2013 - 8:11 PM:)

<>Gov. Chris Christie's decision to schedule a special election for Senator Frank R. Lautenberg's seat on Oct. 16 suggests that he evaluated the potential Republican challengers and did not like what he saw.>
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(FiveThirtyEight - June 04 2013 - 12:55 AM:)

<>Any Republican that Gov. Chris Christie appointed to replace Senator Frank R. Lautenberg would probably be an underdog in an election. But if Mr. Christie wants to maximize his party's chances of holding the seat, his path is fairly straightforward.>
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(FiveThirtyEight - May 29 2013 - 11:48 PM:)

<>Some Democrats are giddy that the Tea Party provocateur Michele Bachmann has announced her intention to retire from Congress, but her decision may allow Republicans to avoid a toss-up race in what should be a reasonably safe district.>
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(FiveThirtyEight - May 17 2013 - 8:31 PM:)

<>Some conservatives are alleging that the I.R.S. targeted not just conservative groups, but also individual conservative taxpayers. But a handful of anecdotal data points are not worth very much in a country of 300 million people.>
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(FiveThirtyEight - May 16 2013 - 4:47 PM:)

<>Two-term presidents since World War II tended to be quite popular in their first terms, and significantly less so in their second terms. Is this proof of a second-term curse? In reality, there are some complications.>
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